Top 37 Remain Silence Quotes
#1. All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is ... He must have models with which to agree ... or outright oppose ... for Nature seems to remain silence.
Charles Bartlett Johnson
#2. It is better to remain silence than to speak rudely when being provoked.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#3. Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.
Vaclav Havel
#4. Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of the scars will remain invisible; and all of the scars will remain under the skin. Where they belong.
Alice Hoffman
#5. It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.
Muhammad
#6. So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Marquis De Sade
#7. Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent ...
Stefan Zweig
#8. The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#9. Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.
Criss Jami
#10. Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
Edward Abbey
#11. To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year
in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life
there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#12. Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.
Craig Groeschel
#13. The stone will melt in tears,
because I can't remain closed to you forever.
I can't escape without being conquered.
From the blue sky an eye will gaze down,
to summon me in silence.
I will receive death utterly at your feet.
Rabindranath Tagore
#14. that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny.
Okey Ndibe
#15. Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
Miguel De Unamuno
#16. Penetrate deep into the word "Om". Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support. The meaning is within you. Om brings out that meaning which is hidden in your soul.
Amit Ray
#18. For who can move when fair Belinda fails? Not half so fix'd the Trojan could remain, 5 While Anna begg'd and Dido rag'd in vain. Then grave Clarissa graceful wav'd her fan; Silence ensu'd, and thus the nymph began.
Alexander Pope
#20. She would rather remain silent, but her voice is no longer something to fear. It's strong. Powerful. A weapon of emotions.
Laura Kreitzer
#21. I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.
Ronald Reagan
#22. It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
Saint Francis De Sales
#23. Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill
#24. Do you want to change the world?
Then change yourself first.
Do you want to change yourself?
Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.
Sri Chinmoy
#25. He had to ask these questions and then remain absolutely silent. Listening in silence was essential to making a comprehensive scan of a person's soul.
Nina George
#26. Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
Euripides
#27. We become equally responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong but remain silent because we think it is right.
Suzy Kassem
#28. My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear - a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.
Kahlil Gibran
#29. Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma, we remain emotionally illiterate. Our most powerful feelings go unnamed and unspoken.
Tian Dayton
#30. Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk.
Sherman Alexie
#31. When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#32. In reality, to remain neutral is to collude with the abusive man, whether or not that is your goal. If you are aware of chronic or severe mistreatment and do not speak out against it, your silence communicates implicitly that you see nothing unacceptable taking place.
Lundy Bancroft
#33. Silence is death, and you, if you talk, you die, and if you remain silent, you die. So, speak out and die.
Tahar Djaout
#34. To preserve the silence within
amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens
no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.
Dag Hammarskjold
#35. Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their being. But there is no need! This smallness is your own imposition upon your freedom, upon your unlimited possibilities, upon your unlimited potential.
Rajneesh
#36. The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.
Gertrud Von Le Fort
#37. Yet, the most wonderful in my heart remains unsaid and it will remain so forever!
Preeth Nambiar
